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Workshop on Middle Eastern American Identities

 

Over the course of the 20th century the numbers of Americans who trace their ancestry to the Middle East has grown substantially and their ranks have become far more diverse. Today, roughly half are Arab Americans and the other half are non-Arab, including Armenians, Iranians, Israelis, Turks, and others. The Middle Eastern umbrella category conceals a host of complex and multi-dimensional communities that challenge current notions about panethnic identity. Our guest scholars offered this daylong workshop and were interviewed by Ann Fisher for All Sides, which you can listen to here: http://streaming.osu.edu/wosu/allsides/091912a.mp3

Part 1: Middle Eastern Americans: Subethnic, Ethnic or Panethnic?
Mehdi Bozorgmehr
Department of Sociology
Middle East and Middle East American Center
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Time: 12PM

Part 2: Teaching About Middle Eastern Americans
Jonathan Friedlander
UCLA and Middle Eastern American Resources Online (MEARO)
Time: 1:30PM

Part 3: Film Screening of Amreeka followed by Q&A session
Time: 3PM


For more information about this or other activities, please get in contact with the Middle East Studies Center, (614) 292-5897, mesc@osu.edu , see:mesc.osu.edu for general information, or facebook.com/mesc.osu for what's going on. To financially support our programs please go tohttps://www.giveto.osu.edu/igive/OnlineGiving/fund_results.aspx?Source_Code=WA&Fund=311823 Please let us know if you have questions concerning access, or need to request accommodations for a disability. We will either direct you to the event organizers, or, if we are the organizer, make arrangements for any necessary accommodations. Early requests are encouraged, and a week will generally allow OSU units to provide seamless access.